Account for workers’ pension fund – Ade Coker tells gov’t. Update: 30 - Oct - 2014.

Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ade Coker, has called on government to account
for the second tier pension contributions of the public sector workers. Speaking on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo”, Ade Coker expressed worry over the rate at which public
workers adopt strike actions as means of addressing their concerns. According to him, strike actions retard the progress of the economy. He therefore was of a strong view that the government cannot absolve it since it has
been in administration for five years. “You cannot run away from it…Because this country must move on. The strikes are retarding our progress.” To the NDC Regional Chairman, the authorities of the pension scheme should reveal to the striking workers where their monies have been kept and the investments made on their
contributions.

Striking Workers Agree To Negotiate With Government Updated: 29 -Oct- 2014

Striking public workers have agreed to return to the negotiation table despite a suit filed by
government . Negotiations between the two- striking workers
and government - to end a six day old strike stalled , Tuesday, with the workers angry over government 's decision to send them to court. The workers say government cannot send them
to court and to the National Labour
Commission while still inviting them for negotiations. They ended Tuesday 's meeting inconclusively
with the hope of soliciting legal advice from their lawyers .
The workers wanted to find out from their lawyers if it was possible to still negotiate with government whilst the writ was still pending .
After that Joy News can confirm that the workers have agreed to return to the negotiation table .
The decision to return , according to Joy News' Fred Smith, coincided with government 's decision to withdraw complaints filed at the
Labour Commission . Hopefully on Thursday the two groups would
once again try to find a solution to a strike that has left students stranded and patients doomed .
Both teachers and health workers are part of the 12 labour unions that have gone on strike in protest over what they say is government 's
poor handling of the tier two pension scheme . The workers are asking government to relinquish the management of the tier two
pension scheme to the various labour unions - something government is not ready to do.
They are also asking government to make public how much has accrued to the tier two pension scheme and the interest involved .
Government is yet to make that public even though the sector Minister Haruna Iddrisu has
promised that the Bank of Ghana as well as the National Pensions Regulations Authority will provide full disclosure on the amount accrued to the tier two pension scheme later this week .